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The Complete List of Homonyms
This is The Complete List of Homonyms which contains all the Homonyms.
Naval: Of, in or relating to navy or navies
Navel:
1. Rounded knotty depression in the center of a person’s belly caused by the detachment of the umbilical cord after birth, the umbilicus
2. The central point of a place
Nay: no, a negative answer
Neigh: A horse’s cry
None: not any, no one
Nun: A member of a female religious community (usually Christians), A person living under vows of chastity, obedience and poverty
Oar: A pole with a flat blade that is used to row or steer a boat through the water
Ore: naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted
Oh: An exclamation of surprise or interjection
Owe:
1. Have an obligation to pay money or goods to someone in return for something received
2. To be under a moral obligation to show gratitude, respect etc.. to offer an explanation to someone
Ordinance: An authoritative order
Ordnance:
1. mounted guns or cannons
2. A government’s department dealing especially with military stores and material
Our: belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more persons previously mentioned or easily identified
Hour:
1. A period of time equal to twenty fourth part of a day and divided into 60 minutes
2. A time of a day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday
3. Period set aside for a particular purpose or marked by a specific activity(e.g. work hours or leisure hours)
Overdo: To use too much of, exaggerate
Overdue: Past the time when due or scheduled, not having arrived, been born etc... at the expected time
Pail: A bucket
Pale:
1. Containing little color or pigment, light in color (a person’s face) having little color, usually due to shock, fear or ill ness
2. Unimpressive or inferior ( a pale imitation)
3. Seem or become less important (to pale in comparison)
4. A wooden stake used with others to form a fence
5. A boundary (lie outside the pale of morality)
Pain:
1. Strong unpleasant and hurting bodily sensation such as one caused by illness or injury
2. Mental suffering or distress
Pane:
1. A single sheet of glass in a window or door
2. A sheet or page of stamps
Pair: A set of two
Pare:
1. Trim by cutting away the edges
2. Reduce or diminish in a number of small successive stages
Pear: A yellowish or brownish green edible fruit, the tree that bears this fruit
Palate:
1. The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose vertebrates
2. A person’s ability to distinguish between and appreciate flavors
3. The flavor of a wine or beer
Palette:
1. A thin board or other surface on which an artist lays and mixes colors
2. The range of colors used by a particular artist in a particular time
3. The range of tonal or instrumental colors in a musical piece
Pallet:
1. A straw mattress
2. A crude or makeshift bed
3. A portable platform on which goods can be moved, stacked and stored
4. A flat wooden blade with a handle that is used to shape clay or plaster
Pause: A temporary stop in action or speech
Paws:
1. An animal’s foot having claws and pads
2. (Informal) A person’s hands
Pea: A round green seed eaten as a vegetable, the leguminous plant which yields pods containing peas
Pee:
1. To urinate
2. Urine
Peak:
1. The pointed top of the mountain
2. A point in a curve or on a graph
3. The point of highest activity or achievement
Peek:
1. To look quickly or furtively
2. Protrude slightly so as to be just visible
Pique:
1. A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, particularly to one’s pride
2. Stimulate one’s interest or curiosity
Peal:
1. Loud ringing of bells
2. A loud repeated or reverberating sound of thunder or laughter
Peel:
1. Remove the outer covering or skin from a fruit or vegetable
2. The outer covering or skin of a fruit or vegetable
Pedal:
1. Each of a pair of foot-operated levers for moving a bicycle or other vehicle propelled by leg-power
2. To move a bicycle by working ob the pedals
Peddle:
1. Sell goods by going from place to place
2. Sell an illegal goods or drugs
3. (Derogatory) Promote an idea or view persistently
Plain:
1. Simple and ordinary, not decorated or elaborate
2. easy to perceive or understand
Plane:
1. A flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points would wholly lie
2. Completely even or flat
3. A level of existence or thought
Pray:
1. Address a prayer to God
2. Wish or hope earnestly for specific out come
Prey:
1. An animal hunted or killed by another animal for food
2. Hunt or kill for food
3. Exploit or injure, cause trouble to
Principal:
1. First in order of importance, main
2. Denoting the original sum of money invested or lent
3. The head of a school or a college
4. (Law) A person directly responsible for a crime (the principal accused)
Principle:
1. A fundamental truth or proportion serving as the foundation for belief or action
2. Morally correct behavior and attitude
3. A fundamental source or basis for something
4. (Chemistry) An active or characteristic constituent of a substance
Quarts: Several units of liquid capacity equal to quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent to approximately, in Britain, 1.13 litres and in the USA to approximately 0.94 litres
Quartz: A hard mineral consisting of silica, typically occurring as colorless or white hexagonal prisms
Queue: A line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed
Cue: A signal or prompt for action
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